Under the devouring force of the nine enormous dragons, blue chakra streamed from the surface of Gaara's body, his mouth, and his nose, then was carried into the mouth of the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path by the blue, illusory dragons!
The extraction lasted a full half day before it finally ended!
Once his chakra had been drained, Gaara slowly fell from the air. The people from Sunagakure caught him and carried him back to their camp!
Seeing Gaara's miserable state, all the remaining jinchūriki looked grim!
What none of them realized, however, was that the process had finished so quickly only because these people had ample chakra, no one interfered, and Nagato could concentrate. Otherwise, the sealing could never have ended in so little time!
"All right! Next!" Deva Path Pain said to Yugito, the Two-Tails jinchūriki, without a trace of expression.
After taking a moment to steel herself, Yugito leaped down and sat where Gaara had just been!
Without any hesitation or sympathy, Deva Path Pain once again performed the Phantom Nine-Dragon Sealing Technique, his face expressionless!
As time passed, the Two-Tails, the Three-Tails... all the way through the Six-Tails were sealed over two days of relentless work!
When the Raikage threw Fū, the Seven-Tails Jinchuriki, in front of the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, Deva Path Pain performed the sealing jutsu again!
Fū's constant pleas for mercy earned her no sympathy whatsoever. To fight Hatake Ziyan, whose strength remained unknown, they had sacrificed even their own loved ones. Why would they care about an outsider like her?
While they were sealing the tailed beasts, something happened that delighted everyone: Gaara, Sunagakure's Fifth Kazekage, was actually brought back to life by Chiyo's ninjutsu!
But the price of that ninjutsu was steep! Chiyo died after giving her